Andrew Motion and Wellcome book prize winners call on charity to divest

Leading health charity should pull money out of fossil fuels, say authors who have received and judged the prestigious Wellcome book prize

Sir Andrew Motion and more than a dozen authors and judges honoured by the prestigious Wellcome book prize have called on the huge medical charity to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies.

The Wellcome Trust, whose £19bn endowment makes it the second biggest health charity in the world, says “climate change is one of the greatest contemporary challenges to global health”. It is among the targets of a fast-growing climate change movement calling for divestment from fossil fuels.

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